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GAO-12-185R 1 (2012-09-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacgox0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i &GAO Account billty Integ ity aRelabilit United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 September 28, 2012 The Honorable Joseph Lieberman Chairman The Honorable Susan Collins Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Candice S. Miller Chairman The Honorable Henry Cuellar Ranking Member Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives Subject: Department of Homeland Security: Efforts to Assess Realignment of Its Field Office Structure This letter formally transmits a summary of oral briefings we gave on September 19 and 21, 2012 (see enc. 1), and subsequent agency comments. We provided this briefing in response to a request from you to examine issues surrounding the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) regional/field office realignment efforts. Our work focused on DHS realignment efforts beginning in 2004, when DHS submitted a report to Congress stating that it would implement a Regional Concept to improve coordination with external partners and integrate internal DHS functions within departmental regions. Specifically, we addressed (1) the extent to which DHS has assessed the realignment of its key operational components' regional/field office structures since submitting its initial plan to Congress in 2004,1 and (2) the challenges, if any, DHS and its key operational components have identified in the department's efforts to realign into a single DHS regional/field office structure, and what, if any, alternative actions have been identified. 1DHS officials identified the following as the key DHS operational components: Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Secret Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Coast Guard. GAO-12-185R DHS Realignment Efforts Page 1

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